Pacifica Performances presents Music at Mildred Owens
Stevie Coyle
Fingerstyle Guitar
Stevie Coyle (late of the whiz-bang string band The Waybacks) is one lucky bum. His dad ran a radio station in southern California and brought home all the promo LPs that didn’t fit the Spanish-language format. The Ventures’ Guitar Freakout, The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett and Alvin And The Chipmunks Play The Beatles’ Hits all came home on a single fateful day.
It didn’t hurt, either, that string-meister David Lindley played in a bluegrass band that rehearsed right next door and gave Stevie his very first lessons, or that his dear Granny was a pianist in the heyday of vaudeville and that his sainted mother was a whiz in mandolin orchestras during the 1930s.
After securing degrees in Theatre and Theology at Santa Clara University he hit the road for 3 years with The Royal Lichtenstein Circus, doing comedy, magic, wire-walking, sword-swallowing, unicycling, juggling & rola-bola and working with dogs, cats, birds, bears, monkeys, horses and even house-cats.
He performed in folk tribute /parody band The Foremen and comedy duo The Reagan Bros and In Los Angeles, Stevie appeared on Cheers and in many television commercials and had a regular role on The Young And The Restless. In the Bay Area, he continued acting, doing commercials, radio, voiceovers and films and played in folk duos The Frontmen and The Back Room Boys. In 1999 he co-founded The Waybacks and toured steadily with them from 2001 through 2007.
Stevie’s gone solo now, and has completed his first solo CD, produced by singer/songwriter and guitar guru Walter Strauss. He toured nationwide until the fall of 2012, when he shook some of the sawdust out of his shoes and opened his own high-end acoustic guitar shop in bucolic Lafayette, CA, called Mighty Fine Guitars.
Saturday Oct 22, 2016
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Saturday, October 22, 2016
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Mildred Owen Concert Hall
1220 Linda Mar Blvd
Pacifica, CA 94044
(650) 355-1882